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Various models which include more specific requirements in addition to the three major disciplines, such as quantitative or moral reasoning requirements, are discussed and rejected in favor of greater simplicity and student choice...
...second place tie. Both the Cougars and the Crimson finished with 93 points in the A division, but the Harvard emerged victorious, thanks to its edge in the B division. Harvard was also aided by the strange New England weather. “The conditions were in our favor,” Baker said. “The winds were very shifty. Most schools don’t get a chance to practice in those conditions.” The two regattas were only half of the events the sailing team participated in over the weekend. The Crimson?...
AIDS was the last thing Gui Xien expected to find in the remote peasant villages of China's Henan province. But when he visited there in 1999, as a favor to a fellow doctor whose patients were dying from a mysterious disease, it didn't take Gui long to make a diagnosis. The stories were all the same: first the husband would fall ill, then his wife, and after a few months, both would be dead, covered in sores and dark, wine-colored blotches. Gui had stumbled on a full-fledged AIDS epidemic, something he had only read about...
...know you’ve noticed it—you walked up to the frozen yogurt machine, rainbow paper-covered cone in hand, only to find that the old standbys have been chucked out the window in favor of an impressive assortment of glamorous new flavors. Gone are the days of simple chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or swirl, having been replaced by Colombo brand frozen yogurts with names like New York Cheesecake, German Chocolate Fudge, and Royal Raspberry. It’s a bourgeois ice cream fantasy...
Overall, UMass (1-4-0, 0-2-0 Hockey East) was 0-for-7 on the power play, while Maine was 1-for-6. Shots were 39-31 in favor of the Black Bears...